Register wall guard



. Aug. 31, 1926. 1,597,972

E. G. HEARTICK REGISTER WALL GUARD Filed Nov. 20, 1925 INVENTOR.

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Patented Aug. 31, 1926.

UNITED- STATES EDWARD G. HEARTICK, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

REGISTER WALL GUARD.

Application filed November This invention relates to hot air registerhoods, and has special reference to a register hood adapted to be placedover hot air registers located in a floor and intended to deflect therising stream of hot air away from an adjacent wall so as not to causedeposition of dust on such wall with subsequent soiling thereof.

One important object of the invention is to improve and simplify theconstruction of such hoods.

A second important object of the inven tion is to provide a hood of-thischaracter wherein a dust collecting surface may be employed which may berenewed from time to time or which may be removed, cleansed andreplaced.

With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafterapparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details ofconstruction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate likepartsin the several views, and;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of such a register hood in position on aregister in a corner of a room.

Figure 2 is a. perspective view showing certain parts of the deviceseparated in order to disclose the manner in which the dust collectingfabric is secured to the hood.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the hood.

The invention comprises a pair of segmental end members each composed ofa series of strips 10 connected together at one end by a rivet or boltll-and expanded fanwise. These members are preferably arouate at their'outer ends and connecting the two ends is a curved top 12 having a bead13 at its front edge and a similar head 14 at its rear edge. Fittingover these beads are clips-15 U-shaped in cross section so that when thefabric 16 is stretched from one edge to the cover 12 and doubled aroundthe heads, the clips may be applied thereto and hold the fabric as achord across the curve of the cover 12 as shown clearly in Figure 3.Preferably, before applying this fabric is dipped in some dust absorbingmedium such as oil or a like composition.

'20, 1925. Serial No. 70,419.

Thus when placed over the radiator R as shown in Figure 1 the hot airflowing upward strikes the fabric 16 and is deflected outwardly, thedust content collecting on the fabric. When the fabric becomes so coatedwith dust that it is ineflicient in action it may be removed by slippingoff the members cloth should be used for this purpose and the porousnature of this fabric has the ad ditional benefit of. permitting thecurved cover 12 to act in aiding the outward deflection ofthe up flowingair.

It will be noted that the hood here shown is of greater horizontaldimensions than of vertical, but it is to be understood that thesedimensions may be varied and that the hood may be turned in onedirection for a broad register and in the other for a narrow register.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient deviceof the kinddescribed and for the purpose specified.

1t isobvious that minor changes may be made in the form and constructionof the invention without departing from the material spirit thereof. Itis not, therefore, desired to confine the invention to the exact formherein shown and described, but it is desired to include all such asproperly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

The combination in a register hood, of a pair of end members ofcorresponding shape each having two edges arranged at angles to eachother, a cover plate connecting the re maining edges of said end membersand extending transversely of the hood, a dust absorbing fabric having aviscous coating secured to the transversely extending edges of the coverplate and stretched tightly therebetween, and releasable clips forsecuring said fabric to said edges of the cover plate. a

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

EDWARD G. HEARTICK.

